[9] 247:7 garishly. A blinding, gaudy effect. [10] 247:7 Brownrigg. A notorious murderess living in England in the middle of the eighteenth century. She was hanged and her skeleton is still preserved. [11] 247:8 Mannings. Marie Manning and her husband murdered a former suitor. They were given, a death sentence. [12] 247:9 Thurtell. A gambler who quarrelled with Weare and killed him after he had professed peace. He designed his own gallows. [13] 247:25 horologist. One who makes timepieces. [14] 249:27 scission. A cleaving or a dividing. [15] 250:25 Sheraton. Next to Chippendale the greatest furniture designer and cabinet-maker. [16] 250:25 marquetry. An inlay of some thin material in the surface of a piece of furniture or other object. [17] 251:23 Jacobean. Pertaining to the time of James I of England. [18] 253:12 travesty. A grotesque imitation. [19] 254:3 sophistry. Methods of the Greek sophists. [20] 254:29 efficacy. Effective energy. [21] 255:5 sow tares, etc. See Matthew XII, 24-30. [22] 255:29 category. A class, condition, or predicament. [23] 256:14 hurtling. Rushing headlong or confusedly. [24] 280:10 dislimned. Erased or effaced. COLLATERAL READINGS _Treasure Island_, R.L. Stevenson. _Kidnapped_, R.L. Stevenson. _Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde_, R.L. Stevenson. _Prince Otto_, R.L. Stevenson. _Across the Plains_, R.L. Stevenson. _Travels with a Donkey_, R.L. Stevenson. _An Inland Voyage_, R.L. Stevenson. _Essays on Burns and Thoreau_, R.L. Stevenson. _Virginibus Puerisque_, R.L. Stevenson. _The Child's Garden of Verses_, R.L. Stevenson. _The Masque of the Red Death_, Edgar Allan Poe. _The Pit and the Pendulum_, Edgar Allan Poe. _A Coward_, Guy de Maupassant. _The Substitute_, François Coppée. _The Revolt of Mother_, Mary Wilkins Freeman. _Flute and Violin_, James Lane Alien. _A Lear of the Steppes_, Ivan Turgeneff. _Rappacini's Daughter_, Nathaniel Hawthorne.